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[Defy General] Tinderbox (UK):
Setting your mobile to 2G only should save you a little power, also be careful with task killers as they can kill some system processes that reduce battery usage, restart you cell to get them back.

I can get 3-4days of battery life with lite use.
[Defy General] iamnik:
Thanks for the reply.

I'm not using any task killers, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Any tips on how to switch it to 2G? I can't figure out anything in the network settings.

I'm just thinking that there may be something wrong with my radio receiver/transmitter to be using so much power in comparison to wifi and phone idle (well, compared to my last phone).
[Defy General] peetr_:
You can switch to 2G in wireless & network settings, mobile networks, select network.

But I am already using 2G and I have the same issue, maybe it is a little better than 3G, but still the "cell standby" is using most of the battery.

I saw the battery usage on Galaxy and there is only a very small usage for "cell standby" only about 10%.
[Defy General] yaotree:
i dont know what's going on with your cell,but WIFI is actually the biggest battery taker

,and the strength of signal power really do something to your WIFI chipset battery usage

what about a better WIFI signal....err i tried to change my cell into 2G or even outline

it doesn't work too much as i want

so maybe think about the WIFI problem?
[Defy General] iamnik:
Well, right now the main drainers are as follows:

Mobile standby: 44%

Go Launcher EX: 25%

Wi-Fi: 15%

Display: 15%

Phone idle: 2%

I was in my place all day today, with the phone permanently connected to Wi-Fi, so 3G was not in use. I get very strong cell reception in my place so I either have a spectacularly efficient WiFi module, or a power hungry cell radio. Or the measurements the phone is taking are wrong.

On another note, Go Launcher seems to be taking up a large percentage since its last update (yesterday or the day before), so I'm uninstalling that.
[Defy General] yaotree:
if WIFI should not be the reason and you've uninstalled the update task,i think it should be OK...but what would you do if that doesn't work?

the battery usage of standby was still more than 40 percent,yes?

why dont you download another battery monitor software....?

i'd have a longtime software error in my HTC G3.....it alwaws show me 45percent remaining battery ....
[Defy General] stapuv:
in setting/wireless & network/mobile networks/select network --- it's good to set 2G or 3G do not let automatic because it switches from 3G to 2G if the signal drops. Set 3g and see how it is.

(sorry for english)

mine on automatic in 6 hours battery dropped to 50% in standby, and now it is set to 3g all the time

mine:

Mobile standby: 40%

Display: 22%

Phone idle: 21%

System: 4%

Games, Adw Launcher EX and os: each 3-2%

when in games mine sometimes freezes and i must get out and restart the game???? i dont no why and i dont no if it is ok but ....
[Defy General] iamnik:
Thanks for the input everybody. So all of today I used the phone pretty sparingly at home, and it's been constantly connected to WiFi. Distribution is:

Mobile Standby: 56%

Wi-Fi: 19%

Display: 12%

Phone idle: 9%

Android System 2%

Under Mobile Standby, it still says "Time without a signal: 50%" even though it's definitely had perfect reception all day. I don't know what's causing it to report incorrect numbers :/

Anyway, I switched from auto to 3g auto (I tried 2G, it didn't seem to work properly, Google wouldn't even load).

I guess I'll just ignore it :/

Edit: When not on wifi, it seems to switch between 3g and HSPA quite often. Could this mean something?
[Defy General] yaotree:
just like what <stapuv>says when your cell drops any one of the 3G or HSPA singnal another singnal will be switched...it'll use more power for changing network frequently.....but i dont no if this could be the reason for your situation...hmmmm
[Defy General] Jt612:
From my reading the 50% without signal is just a software bug, and can be fixed by toggling on aeroplane mode turning of teh screen for 20 seconds or so and then turning of aeroplane mod when you notice it's happening. the 50% will soon decrease. I too believe that cell standby is using way to much on my phone (always 45%+) even though im browesing the web facebook or playing games for larger peroids of time and those apps don't even show up on the battery usage display and if they do theya re only 2 percent or less.
[Defy General] Darmach:
I have a question for you guys :

I get

46% mobile standby

43% phone idle

10% voice calls

3% display

is this 43% phone idle all right? Doea it mean that 43% of the battery have beed drained by phone in idle state (so maybe not sleeping?) or it means that from all the time phone was idle (asleep) for 43%?
[Defy General] iamnik:
I guess mobile standby use is about the same on everyones phones. That's what I wanted to find out!
[Defy General] willbeh:
After Go Launcher EX latest update, the battery seems to drain a lot faster during idle/standby. Removed that and standby battery usage is better.
[Defy General] sp8y:
Just thought I'd add my finding on this.

My Defy regularly showed Mobile Standard over 50% - but also time without signal was always double the time that the phone had been switched on. For instance if the phone was switched on since a reboot for 1 hour then mobile standby would show the total time as 2 hours but time without a signal as 1 hour.

I had always been running on a battery saver profile (in froyo I was running the custom battery profile) & after every reboot the mobile standby bug would show.

Yesterday I changed my battery profile to the Performance mode & after several reboots the bug hasn't shown up & now the mobile standby shows the total time correctly & zero minutes without signal. The %age use has dropped to be more in line with wifi at around 32%.

I haven't noticed any difference in battery life so as mentioned in a previous post it does look like some sort of bug.
[Defy General] Step666:
A percentage is a proportion.

Just because it's higher on the Defy, that doesn't mean the mobile standby is using more power than it does on other handsets, it could just mean everything else is using less.

There's no point comparing your Defy's battery usage to any other handset apart from another Defy.
[Defy General] sp8y:
OK so after a few days of having no issue I rebooted the phone & the "bug" came back today so I guess it wasn't to do with the battery mode as I then put it back into custom battery mode, rebooted the bug went away.

Haven't noticed any difference over the last few days so I'm not going to worry about it.
[Defy General] yonef:
I have found that DEFY is getting the readings wrong!

Here is how I get this:

1) fully charged the battery

2) started angry birds.

3) ~2 hour later, battery dropped to 60% and usages was as follows:

mobile standby 49%

phone idle 40%

display 4%

angry birds 7%

WTF ?!?! it should be : angry birds ~ 80%

This mettery is tottaly useless!
[Defy General] ABC_Universal:
Personally I couldn't care less what the battery usage breakdown says. In my case 1% battery can standby 1~2 hours or use 3~5 minutes. That's pretty good for me as a charge can last 2 days.
[Defy General] bokeron2020:
Hi.

Could someone with this "bug" or "battery problems" do a test for me ?

A few hours after you've last charged your phone (or connected to USB) and being sure you haven't rebooted your phone recently (24 hours or so), do the following:

(My phone uses spanish language so the names might be different ...)

Dial *#*#4636#*#*, and choose battery history.

There, choose "CPU Use" and "since last charged".

What are the 4 or 5 main processes appearing in that list, and what's the CPU time they've used (you'll find that by "clicking" on the process' name) ?
[Defy General] antony.ps:
Where you find these codes? (*#*#4636#*#*)

I have seen many posts with other codes, to disable 3g, as example... where I can find this?

BTW, done your method, even when i have played games the entire day, all my cpu goes to Android System, Swype and Media Server (what is this?).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GreenMnM588:
Here is my first attempt at a boot animation for the Nexus One and Nexus S.

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Steps For Nexus One:

1) Download file

2) Rename to bootanimation.zip

3) Copy to data/local/

Steps for Nexus S:

1) Download file

2) Rename to bootanimation.zip

3) Copy to system/media/

The boot animation should then work!

http://www.mediafire.com/?pyr4uni0ptm132m
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Lultima:
System/Media for the nexus one too ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bloodflame:
Looks great! Thank you very much for sharing!! :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GreenMnM588:
I've always pushed it to /data/local/ but if /system/media/ works, who's to stop ya? :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GreenMnM588:
I appreciate it!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Pzyduck:
Awasoome boot ;)
[Droid X General] droidx-india:
Hi,

is there any chances to unlock my Droid-X so that it can work on another network ?

to be specific I want to use Droid-X here in India on either Reliance or Tata (both CDMA) carriers.

I have read around in forums that people had unlocked droid to work with metroPCS, so wants to know if any one have tried similar thing with Droid-X ?

Thanks in advance and appreciate any lead for this, as I love my Droid-x and wants to keep using it after I move back to india too ...:)
[Droid X General] gagandeep.puri:
Anyone??? I came across some post and someone was successful in doing so... But the procedure is not given... Pls help!!! :(
[Droid X General] IWHBYD:
You'd need to be able to replace/modify the UIM(CDMA equivalent of a SIM card) to change carriers, I don't know anything about it but there's probably a tutorial somewhere online.
[Droid X General] finalkey:
In china, we run droidx in China Telecom, but you need some carrier information like IMSI ESN AKEY AN/AAA and write it to droidx use QPST
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagech:
Can anyone access the infinity and macro option in the camera app?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brmayhem:
Yeah, I can select them just fine.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bajo76:
Yes, working fine here.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sagech:
Thanks for the replies. I'm not sure what went wrong just now. I couldn't set the camera's flash and focus settings because those options were greyed out.

I've cleared the camera app data and now it works fine.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
Hey guys

So I am currently running 2.3.3 on my N1. I manually flashed the update from Here. I used the "Modified GRI40".

So after update, I noticed that my adfree wasn't working. Running the app, it tells me my host file is up to date. However, no ads are being blocked. Same after uninstalling and re-installing the app. So then I decided to try to copy the host file over manually using adb.

I run adb and get root prompt. Then I mount /system as rw using

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

It appears to work. So then I try copying the host file to /system/etc using

cp hosts /system/etc

Then I get the following error.

"write error: No space left on device"

But i do, over 30mb of free space.

So I don't know what the issue is. Im thinking that maybe /system isn't being mounted as RW so it is giving the error??

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Did you check the /system free space, or /data?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
Try doing a df -h from the terminal to verify that you do, indeed, have free space on /system as well as /data, as Jack_R1 mentioned.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
Well looks like somehow I don't have any space left. I went to go download a terminal application from the market but it errored saying no space left.

So now I can't even install new apps.

However, under settings->storage it says I have 28MB of free space left.

Any ideas?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Reboot, wipe Dalvik cache.

Go to Manage Applications, clear browser cache.

If it restores you some space - great, proceed with what codesplice suggested above.

If it doesn't - backup, wipe and reflash.

If no backup installed - you're out of luck.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
Since you seem to have adb functioning, you can run adb shell df -h to get a readout of your available space on your different file systems. This could help troubleshoot the issue.

Additionally, rather than doing a long manual "mount" command, you could simply do an adb remount to automagically remount all file systems in read/write mode.

The indication under Settings --> Storage indicates free space on /data, I believe, and gives no indication of /system (where you're trying to copy the hosts file).

Another thought (sorry this isn't really coherent at this point...): What if you were to remove your default hosts file and then push the new one?

> adb remount
Remount succeeded
> adb shell rm /system/etc/hosts
> adb push hosts /system/etc/hosts
> adb shell chmod 644 /system/etc/hosts
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
Well that's thing, that is why I started this thread because I was trying to use ADB to push a new hosts file but got the no space error. So I already tried that.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
I was asking if you had specifically tried removing the old one and replacing it rather than just overwriting.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
Oh I see what you mean. But no I have not, let me give it a shot.

**Nope didn't work. I still got the same error, no space left on device.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
Have you had the opportunity to do adb shell df -h yet?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brownbay:
No to hijack this thread, but I just wanted to ask, does "adb remount" require root?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
yes, without root access to the filesystem, adb remount will fail.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
So when I try adb shell df -h, I get:

"-h: No such filesystem or directory"
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
You don't have busybox. Try running "adb shell df", maybe it'll still give some info.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
Ok when I ran adb shell df I got a listing of filesystems. /system says size 145M and used 145M. So apparently it is full.

How could that be though?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
It could be that you have some bad blocks on your /system partition (you can generally only check by doing a wipe operation in recovery and then viewing the log). These bad blocks could take up space that would otherwise store your system data, and could push you over capacity.

Or you could just have some extra bloat related to that ROM. You could drive to remove some of the applications on /system that you don't have use for (the Amazon MP3 thing, for instance). I'd suggest using Titanium Backup to do this, but you can also do it by manually using the adb shell.

Alternatively, a full wipe and clean reinstall may help make sure you don't have anything left over taking up space.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
I'm thinking about just flashing a new ROM altogether as I am also having issues with the battery. Under usage, Android OS now shows somewhere around 35% of the usage. This only started happening after updating to 2.3.3.

I've always ran stock ROMs, so I haven't played with any of the custom ROMs out there. Are there any ROMs you recommend for a first timer? :D

*Sidenote* So a nandroid backup is a complete backup of the system state correct?

So after flashing a ROM, I can just restore the nandroid backup and my phone will be exactly as it was with the old ROM and user data?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
I've been really impressed with the Kang-o-rama ROMs. Basically prettied-up versions of Cyanogen. The latest release is a beta based on CM7, so still has a few issues. The prior release (KOR 1.1Final) is still quite solid.

And yes, a nandroid backup creates a copy of your current disk image, which can then be restored at any time to revert back to a previously-working configuration (great for when you break stuff!).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_myk:
Exactly:) Remember to wipe before restoring:)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
Oh and that brings up another thought.

So if before I flash a new ROM, I do a Titanium Backup and then flash the ROM...

Would I then be able to restore that Titanium Backup made on the previous stock ROM to restore all my apps and user data?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
Yes, in theory. Sometimes, mass-restoring a whole bunch of stuff can cause some issues, particularly if you're dealing with restoring apps and data on top of different versions of those same apps. Be particularly careful when restoring any system stuff.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
So would you say you don't recommend it?

The only thing that has kept me from flashing a custom ROM is that ill lose everything. I really don't want to have to start fresh.

But at this point it looks like there is no other way. Am I right?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
No, I definitely recommend it. I'd back up everything, install a ROM, and then do a batch restore of missing apps with data (I'd be careful of the "and all system data" options).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decoyjoe:
Oh ok I see what you mean. It actually makes sense to not restore system data as most of that should be updated through the cloud.

Anyways, back to the /system partition being full. Is there any way to clear out unwanted data from that?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codesplice:
You can look in /system/app for unwanted apps that you can remove. Be careful; some apps there are required for proper system operation.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJ.Evoking:
i like have no signal while Im at work,in hosptial. With Myn i had signal power lots of place. Ever since I went ginger happy i get like no data connection at all. so like no texting while im at work. I wanna flash the latest radio but is wondering if a good move or bad. Holla back and letme know...

also where can i find the latest radio zip.

thxs
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrusheen:
Yes, of course you should update your radio. Especially because it can help with speed issues. Update with the zips on this thread

You flash any of them through your recovery, but I wouldn't update your HBoot which is why it's not in the combo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJ.Evoking:
It wont let me download radio 215. Why is that. From Cal's site
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJ.Evoking:
Know another site?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
Oops didnt mean the thanks, but o well. Those downloads are working fine, your best bet is to use the combo one on the very top.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
Mirrored, as always: http://goo-inside.me/evo/radios/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJ.Evoking:
Has radio 2.15 been a success for anyone here or in other words nightmares.

Sent to XDA by the mind of an EvoKing. LoL
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I have had no problems with the 2.15 radio.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJ.Evoking:
Now signal bars drop down to all white. More drop calls as well. Should I have just dl the whole string update?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
How do i change fonts on o1..i have tries everything like FOnt changer, Absolute system and all ...Absolute system works ..but i wud really like it if i cud change the font to whatever i like...I tried using ADB.. mounted /system rw , copied the font to /system/fonts/ as DroidSans.ttf but it doesnt seem to change anything when i reboot??? WHat am i doing wrong..ALSo which fonts are to be replace..DroidSans or DroidSerif or Bold/Italic/Regular...Once i changed all of them with(aquabase from MAC) and my phone wont boot...Can please someone post i "WORKING" howto on this (changing font manually)..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] bioan:
There is another topic regarding to fonts. Search here on xda for flashable fonts.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
Why cant the simpler way of pushing the font using adb work ???
[Optimus One, P500, V General] bioan:
You don't need ADB. Just copy the zip on the sd and flash it !
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Omnichron:
Try custom font changer

From the market.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sarfaraz1989:
Fontchanger Doesnt work.....Flashing the zip works for now ...
[Atrix 4G General] the_ahmadzais:
Would bell atrix would have same problem as At&t? Is it network problem or phone problem? Is anyone getting it when it comes to bell?
[Atrix 4G General] 4mynikka:
It will be good on bell since they're not limited in terms of their speed, they have the hspda+ so you should be good to go. I'm thinking about switching from Rogers to bell to get the Atrix but might just get the Atrix outright later on as long as it gets the 2.3 update.
[Atrix 4G General] the_ahmadzais:
I hope the bell atrix is not branded.
[Atrix 4G General] 4mynikka:
You can always get a different battery cover.
[Atrix 4G General] PuerkitoBio:
I'm getting it when it comes out with Bell. March 17th is the only leaked date so far, hopefully it will hold (they're already teasing the Atrix officially on their website - "coming soon"). One thing I'm pretty sure of is that Bell will NOT block app installs from outside the market (unlike ATT). Not a huge problem anyway with the root. And I'm not too worried about limiting speeds, it's not the same situation as ATT. There's nothing that came out in the forums so far to keep me away from this beast, the biggest issues have been ATT-related (or user-related, such as the music player that stops playing... uh, how bout turning off auto-kill...), and the so-so camera.
[Nook Color General] admiralnorman:
There have been many posts from people asking about wireless sleep issues. I have recently resolved the problem for myself and i'd like to share.

Original problem: Whenever my Nook would go to sleep, I would have to turn wireless off and then on to make it reconnect. This only happened when I was using my work's wifi. At home and with my wireless tethering I never had an issue. I did set the wifi sleep policy to never in spare parts. This did not fix it. My temporary solution was some tasker scripts to automate it. This was annoying as it took a bit to execute.

Solution: my device was originally rooted with stock 1.0.1 software. When I read the patch notes for the b&n stock rom 1.1.0 update, I was happy to see an update to the wifi. So, I flashed the stock rom, sideloaded the 1.1.0 update and re-rooted. My work's wifi no longer crashes out on sleep.

Thoughts: I have no idea why my work's wifi acts this way. We have many devices connected to it, and this was the only with any issues at all. I'm also kinda impressed that b&n puts out as many updates as they do. And that they're useful.

- Sent from my Nook Color
[Nook Color General] Tool Belt:
1.1.1, not 1.1.0? Where did you find 1.1.1?
[Nook Color General] admiralnorman:
Ewwww! My auto type! You have failed me! I will edit my post.

- Sent from my Nook Color
[HD7 General] jazeelkk:
Hi,

I would like to install the unbranded HTC Windows Phone ROM on my T-Mobile HD7. My current specification are,

OS Version : 7.0.7004.0

Firmware revision number : 2250.09.12001.531

Radio software ver : 5.51.09.11a_22.31.50.09U

Bootloader version : 1.20.2250.0(111584)

Please help.

Thanks

JAZEEL
[HD7 General] PanNet:
Hi,

Normaly you can't but there is an invention like "goldcard". It is the only way to install unbranded ROM. I did it and it is quite easy. Try to read about it.

Regards
[HD7 General] rich2thad:
What's tha difference?
[HD7 General] yai360:
It seems I have to build a cable myself . My USB y cable doesn't work.